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The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1887-12-10
NUMBER 2.

as Jack! =. 1 can take care, of course
l can! 1 mind all she says, l mind
beautifully. Now 1 wouldn't forget
what she told me about this candle.
not for any thing! She told mo to set
it down by the closet door"
Ah, Lucy, mistake alreadyl She
told you the chamber doOri
Il remember great deal better
than Jack does; Jack can't remember
eight times nine TO save his life-I
wonder if Tom covered up the appl es
with the great big apple-rug? 1 think
he did.
She opened the closet door, the can
die still in her hand. What a delic-
ious odor from the golden pippins!
Certainly there never we're any other
half so nice! Yes they were covered
up with the rug. Then what did she
do with her candlestick? She set it
down and knelt right in front of it,
the bottom almost touching the skirt
of her frock. But as she thrust her
hand eagerly into the basket under
the rug, she forgot there was any
thing in the world but apples. That
candlestick, with the candle in it, was
as far away from her thoughts, to say
the least, as the moon in the sky.
But the candle did not forget.
1t is the duty of lighted candle
to set fire to any thing that is putin its
way; and presently, when Lucy by a
quick movement thrust her skirt right
into the flame of the candle, what
could you expect but blaze?
Before Lucy had selected her apples,
work of time, the blaze was creep
ing up the back of her dress. She
know nothing about it till the smell of
burning wooden reached her nostrils,
and at the same instant she felt dread
full sensation of heat, and knew that
she was on fire!
She screamed with all her might;
Mamma! Mammal! Fire! Firer'
Oh, how far it was down stairs to the
parlor! Could mamma hear?
No, if she had been in the parlor she
could not have heard; and then
what might have happened 1 dare
not so much as fancy. But
Mrs. Lockwood had not felt
quite safe about Lucy, and had fol-
lowed her up stairs some time ago.
She was on the upper landing when
the child called; she heard her first
CRY, and flew at once to her aid.
rejoice to say that the flames had not
reached Lucy's hair. Her mother
wrapped her in the "apple-rug,"
which was quite ruined by the means,
as well as the pretty red frock; but
the dear child herself was unharmed.
20 mamma" she afterwards said,
with a shudder, Il don't wonder you
call me careless girl. and won't let
me touch lamps! 1 should think you'd
tie my feet and hands with rope;
yes, l should!
TOO bad 1 burnt up that pretty
'apple-rug;' but then, oh dear, man.
ma. just think. you knOw-if there
hadn't been any 'apple-rugI Sophie
Nay, in Congre1GtiopaList.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1887-12-10
a Trihe Sarcastic.

Wife to Husband-I can't cOmpre-
hend how l ever came to marry such
a donkey as you.
Husband-Don't get excited, my
dear
THE only explanation for it Is that
I was a fool n wrelched, ignominious
fool"
'.Now look here. my dear, you may
abuse me as much as you please. but
1 shall not allow you to call my wife a
fool. You must speak respectfully
when you mention her name, even il
she does not deserve it, - iSchaLS
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1887-12-10
THE TREASURY VAULT.
One of the Most Perfect Store Rooms fo
Coin Ever Constructed.

One of the Most Perfect tOre-Rooms for
Coin Ever Constructed.
/ dropped into the Treasury and
looked at the workmen who are en-
gagged in constructing the new vault.
The Treasury itself looks like tomb.
1t has great somber columns down
each side of it, and the doors of its
basement are so cut that they look as
though they were dug out of solid
rock. Every thing about it is massive,
and it makes me think more of the
Bank of England than any other build
ing ] have seen. 1t is made in the
shape of hollow square, with wide
tiers of granite walls running around
court in the center 1t is in this
court that the new vault is being built.
Its interior will be cut up into cells,
walled with iron lattice work, and the
workmen are now riveting the iron
bars composing it together. These bars
must be very strong, as the weight of
the silver which is TO be put in the vault
will be immense. There was portable
furnace blazing away within the
vault, and four men were carry
ing red-hot rivets and sticking
them through the holes which had
been drilled in these iron bars. They
were then rivited by the pounding of
a heavy hammer while a man held an
iron mallet against them ut the back.
Each of these lattice-w work walls re-
quire 9, 500 riveis, and it will take
more than 100 900 of these rivets to
fasten the iron work of the vault TO-
gether. The vault is to contain $780,
900, 900, which is such an immense
sum that few people can comprehend
it 1t will give some idea of it TO
know that its weight will be 8, $50
tons, OF the weight of $1,000 men of
200 pounds each. Think of the heayi-
est man you know, and it would take
80. 600 such men to weigh as much as
does this silver. 1t would take 17S
freight cars to carry it, and it would
take train mile and quarter long
to transport it. Its weight would be
so much that locomotives could
hardly haul it, and if these dollars
were laid out SO that one just touched
the other they would make line g.
305 miles long. If they were put into
floor, edge to edge, they would car
pet ten times the area of the Capitol, or
more than thirty acres, and if they were
piled one upon another they would
reach much more than 800 times as
high as the Washington monument,
making solid column eff silver more
than III miles high. A million dol
lars in silver IS no small quantity, and
when you pack 500. 900, 900 into a
vault it has to be as strong as stone
and iron can make it. To rob this
vault will be a physical impossibility.
To tunnel into it one would have to orc
under the whole Treasury building,
and he would have to drill through a
floor of cement and chilled steel before
he got to the coin. The slightest noise
would be sure to be heard, and the
movement of single bag would cause
such a racket as to bring the guard
down upon him instanter. No attempt
has, | think, ever been made to rob the
United States Treasury, and the safe.
guards about it are so strong that none
but the craziest of men would think o:
trying it. - Washington Letter IN
SdUanpdh NeaUS
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1887-12-10

The atlanta Medical and Surgical
Journal is authority for the report that
q Georgia surgeon found a boy with
two heads, one at each extremity of
the spinal column. One of them--the
one where the tail ought to be, had a
scalp which gave growth to long curls
and outlines of the nose, mouth an
eyes we'll marked. but as it gave the
boy pain, it was successfully removed
by surgical operation. Foote's
Health Monthly.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1887-12-10
VOLUME XVII.
REVENGE.

Revenge is naked sword
1t has neither hilt nor guard.
Would'st thou weld this brand of the Lord:
Is they grasp then firm and hard?
But the closer thy clutch of the blade,
The deadlier blow thou would'st deal,
Deeper wound in thy hand is made
1t is thy blood reddens the steel.
And when thou hast dealt the blow
When the blade from thy hand has fown-
Instead of the heart of the foe
Thou may st find it sheathed in thine own!
Charles Henry We50. IN C5ntHrH
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1887-12-10

"A Missouri woman has collecte
II, 653 spools.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1887-12-10

"A black walnut log of extraordina-
ry size was recently shipped from Bal.
timore to the river Clyde in Scotland.
1t was seventeen feet long and forty.
two inches broad. containing over two
hundred cubic feet of wood.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1887-12-10

1t is now asserted that hay fever
is not produced by pollen. but by
minute organisms floating in the at
mosphere. On the hypothesis that
these creatures have intelligence it is
possible to understand how the highly
intellectual are selected as haV-feyeI
victims.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1887-12-10
READING FOR THE YOUNG.
A LOST DOLL BABY.

My doll baby's missing
Since earliest morn;
Sometimes I'm sorry
She ever was born.
I've hunted and hunted
All over the house,
In crannies and hooks
Too small for mouse;
Down in the meadow
And under the trees
Ask'd all the butterflies,
Ask'd all the bees.
Where is the bell-man?
Oh. what shall do?
Get out hand-bill?
Pray, sir, would you?
Mammals not worriel;
For, as went past,
All that she said was:
Where had you her last?'
Doesn't she suppose
That if L knew
I'd go and get her
Without this ado?
Frank H. Stamfer, in Good Housekeeping.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-23

the prosecution, and he thinks that some
friend of Harris was the one who had at
tempted his life, so that he would not APP
pear to give testimony against the fellow
Harris. He thought that no other at
tack would he made but nevertheless he
supplied himself with a 32-calibre revolver.
Saturday night he and his brother, George
Roberts, went ont to LaVilla. His brother
was standing in ar alley, n fcw stops from
Bay street, talking, when some one struck
George severe blow on the back of the
head with a club. Before the n1an who was
talking to him could recover sufficiently
from the sudden shock he looked up and
down the alley, but could see no one. The
wound on his head bled freely, but liberal
application of whisky and cold water soon
stopped the flow of blood and the pain.
Misfortmes never come singly, as the Sc
quel TO this story will tell. The two brothers
and friend then hired a hack and drove
out to Ookland. When on one of the streets
of that suburban village, he concluded to
make q closer examination of his new pistol,
which was 81 self-acting revolver. He
took it from his pocket and was turning it
over in his hand, when it went off and the
ball passed through his left hand.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-23
Spanish Groundpeas.

From the AHlcrfcltS (Gd.) Recorder.
"Do you want to see the salvation of the
South" asked an amateur farmer of us yes
terday morning, as he marched into our
sanctum, with couple of bundles of dark
green foliage.
We confessed our desire to sec such, and
he laid upon our table the bundles of foliage,
with the remark:
There it is-Spanish groundpeas."
He then informed us that it was the
cheapest and best feed for stock that could
be raised combining both forage and corn.
The stalks grow from two to three feet in
height, are heavily leaved and succulent.
On the roots are grown the peas, which are
larger than the ordinary ground pea, and
are more prolific The stalks grow up
straight and branching, instead Of trailing
upon the ground, as do those of the ordinary
ground-pea. When the peas are matured
the stalks are pulled up, the peas cinging
to the roots, and are thrown into small piles,
where they soon cure I'm the sun, making a
most excellent fodder, while the peas have
all the fattening qualities of corn. As
food for cattle 1t cannot be exceled and is
especially fine for milk cattle. These peas
can be grown upon the poorest ground, and
indeed seem to do as well as when richly
fortified. Where they are grown in large
quantities the prachce is to NOW off the
vines, cure them into hay and then turn the
hogs into the field to fatten upon the peas.
III desired the peas can be easily stripped off
the vines after they are cured and can be
readily sold in the market at 81 per bushel.
Our enthusiastice friend made the follow
ing comparison between raising corn and
Spanish peas upon poor ground: "On ground
that will raise ten bushels of corn to the
acre forty bushels Of peas and two tons of
forage can bc raised. Estimating the corn
at - cents per bushel, we have $3.50, while
tho fodder is probably worth So 80, making
a total of $40. Estimating the peas Mt 50
cents per bushel, we have $50, and the for
age at 80 cents per hundred we have so,
making total of $40 And in this havo
really estimated the peas at only half their
market value. tell you it is big thing,
and one which our farmers will do we'll to
invaStioatp y
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-23
THE RICE CROP.
The Freshet Has Gone-About 35 Per
Cent. of Crop Ruined.

From the Daricn tGa.) Timber Gazette.
The freshet has come, and, happily, its
fury at least has gone
The damage TO rice, as compared with the
entire Altamaha crop, is slight; rs COM
pared with that on the Savannah river, it is
trifing
While fully approaching how keenly the
losses OF the Head planters, who, though
planting on a small scale, may he SAID to
have lost their all, must be felt, we yet feel
olated over the fact that not over 35 per
cent of the entire crop on the Altamaha
has been lost
On Monday night the freshet reached its
height. Those two veteran rice planters,
Capt Barnwell and T. H. Gignilliat, about
that time gave up hope. while Mr. j. &.
Legare and Mr. James Walker, on Gener-
ais Island, whose places are better pro
tected, were still tenaciously clinging to
the belief that they would escape uninjured.
Mr.. w. C. Wylly, on Broughton Island,
the lowest of our plantations and one which
always enjoys immunity from the ravagcs
of freshets, had of course no reason to feel
alarmed
On Tuesday it was generally supposed
that the freshet had commenced to fall and
on Wednesday, with the exhilarating effect
of ray of sunshine on cloudy day, the
discovery was established beyond doubt.
Darien then breathed freer The rice
crop, for the time being at least, was known
to be safe
|, The statement in our last issue on the
authority of Mr. I. H. Gignilliat, viz. that
the Oconee freshet being two or three days
ahead of the Ocmulgee one, was thus given
a chance to run off before the Ocmulgee
poured her waters in, has turned out to be
correct A simultaneous rushing together
of the two mighty streams would doubtless
have produced far more disastrous results
than haVa aXnlripnPnH Tho q
will be found a correct statement of the
losses sustained:
In Cat Head creek the plantations of d.
s. Sinclair, Glib Gignilliat, Mcdonald Dun
woody, G. o. $. Mallard and several colored
men, not exceeding 800 acres, are all under
water, and but a very small portion of the
crop will be saved.
Capt. Barnwell, on Champney Island,
about 400 acres, has nearly 25 per cent. of
his crop under water more or less damaged
Mr.. t. II. Gignilliat on Buffers Island,
about 900 acres, has about 300 acres under
water, but feels very sanguine about the
portion under water turning out not SO bad
as he thought
On the Altama place planted by Mr.. w.
c.. Wylly, about so per cent. of the crop
will be lost.
Mesrs James Walker and J. G. Legare,
on Generals Island. and Mr.. w. C. Wylly,
on Broughton Island will lose nothing.
Broadfeld also planted by Mr. w. c..
Wylly is also safe.
On the Glynn county side, Mr.. Hayward
Barnwell has lost but little by the freshet,
and the Dents and other planters are re-
ported safe. Out of 5000 acres planted on
the Altamaha l 300 have been submerged, a
result gratifying indeed considering the
danger Threatened.
The freshet has once more demonstrated
to our planters the necessity of having the
"a IN orb
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-23
REFS PARK.
Dr.. Albert Rees' Heirs will Demand
It's Return to Them.
From tie Amertcus ga. } Recorder.

Dr.. Albert Rees' Heirs will Demand
It's Return to Them.
From the Anertcts tGa.) Recorder.
Away back in the forties, long before
Americas was half the great city and i'm
portant commercial metropolis that she
now is, Dr. Albert Rees then wealthy and
public spirited citizen, but long since dead,
donated to the city piece of woodland out
in the southeastern suburbs to be used as
park, the agreement being, as we under
stand it, that the city would improve 1t
and use it solely for this purpose, within
stipulated time, otherwise that the property
revert back to the heirs of his estate.
A very short while before the allotted
time expired the City Council built cheap
wire fence around the lot and named it
"Rees Park, in order to make their title
good and valid, but made no further i'm
provement whatever The heirs of the
estate insist that the agreement upon the
part of the city has not been complied with.
and win make efforts to have the property
restored to them.
As site for park the plat is well nigh
worthless to the city. as in its present condl-
ton it would cost thousands of dollars to
improve and beautify It, while to the chill
dren of the generous donor it would be a
snug little fortune if cut up and sold as
building lots. Besides the question of right
in the case, we are informed that the city
has not nor has ever had n deed or title to
the property, and as the Council have not
complied with tue agreement made by
their predecessors three decades ago, it
would be but right and proper for them to
relInquish their claim upon it, and return 1t
to the rightful owners, one of whom is a
lady, and to whom her portion Of the prop
erty would greatly relieve from work and
toll. We learn that n formal demand will
be made of the Council by the heirs very
soon, and, we believe, that every right
thinking citizen would be willing to see the
property surrendered to them if the facts
in the case are as above stated and we have
no reason to doubt their correctness or re
liza hility
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-23
A Negro Dude.
From the oarrotlton (Ga.) Free Press.

From the CdYTotttOn (Gd.) Free Press.
A wealthy citizen of this county, esti-
mated to be worth about $4,000, was re-
turning home on horseback after a heavy
shower during the recent rainy spell At
Buffalo crock, which was very much swoi-
len, he encountered negro youth, who was
sorely perplexed as to how he could get
over as all footlogs were gone, On appeal
ing to the gentleman the negro was prompt
ly told to wade it, This he did not RELISH and
after all suggestions from the gentleman
failed to strike the negro as impracticable,
q bright idea struck him and he asked:
Say, bosS-any chance to hire dat er
boss"
''Yes.r
''What'll yer talle.n
''Ten cents, - replied the gentleman, after
q moments hesitation.
The money was promptly paid, the gentle
man dismounted, and in a moment the dar-
key was safely on the other side Looking
back he saw the gentleman was stripped to
his shirt. A moment later he took the bride
from the aStounded darkey, mounted his
horse and bidding him pleasant good eve
ming continued his journey home.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-23
Grown on Twenty Acres.
From the An,eric,es (Ga.) Record.


On the edge of the city lives a gentleman
who has little farm of twenty acres. He
is an ardent agriculturist, and has had much
practical experience in farming. His bust
ness in the city takes up so large portion of
his time that he has only little time morn
ing and evening, to devote to his little farm,
but that little time is his delight.
In conversing with him a few days ago
about the proposed county exhibit at the
Atlanta Exposition and State Fair, we re-
marked that Sumter certainly ought to
make grand display with SO great va
riety of products
THAT is So" said he. II believe | could
furnish twenty varieties of products off of
my little place alone"
"Well, suppose you enumerate what you
have grown and are growing, and we
will make list of them and see how they
foot up
All right. We will take field crops first.
| have got two varieties of cotton, white
corn, golden dent corn, sweet corn, pop
corn and Kaffr corn had corn meal from
new corn on the 4th Of July, and on the
same day planted corn which will mt ure
b fore frost. Speckled peas, clay peas,
sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, spring oats,
fall oats, barley, rye, wheat, green
sugar cane, early amber sorghum
cane, kershaw squashes, Spanish
ground peas, German mlllet,
pearl millet, sessamum or benne, crab grass
hay, crowfoot grass, bermuda grass, red
clover
Then in fruits have peaches from May
to Nov. l, apples, pears, ounces, plums,
grapes twenty varieties ripening from June
to FROST, figs blackberries, Strawberries,
pomegranates. In vegetables l have an
almost endless variety-all that can be
grown in the temperate and semi-tropical
zones. Here we have twenty-seven varie-
ties of field crops, eleven kinds of fruits and
vegetables without number, on twenty acres
Of ground"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-23
An Alligator Tackles a Bull.

from inc -iHteFfCWS Ntfu,l hepuOticGH.
We learn from an observer that bull
was wading along in the edge of Flint river
swamp, last Monday, nipping cane and
keeping cool, when a huge alligator made q
dash Mt his nose, but missed his hold. The
bull made fight, and prodded the alligator
with his horns Then commenced a fierce
and bloody encounter, in the shallow water,
that beggars description. The gator struck
with his tail and snapped furiously with
his huge jaws, tearing the skin and flesh in
big strips from the bull Tho bull got his
horns into the gators sides, and lifting his
huge carcass, tossed him high and dry on
the ground, and, following up with u deep
below rushed again upon its foe The al
ligutor met him with terrible blow of the
tai knocking Off one horn and bringing the
bull " his knees The other horn got In I'M
der fOrelez u the gator, and the gator,
getting q front foot OF Inc bull in Us mouth
they became locked, aud rolled aud tImbied
feAriully They got INTO the water again.
where. after brief struggle. both expired
The entrallg of the gator were prOtrndinZ
ia several places, while the bull was nearly
s.riVDAsl u hide and hcah.